The first table below looks at the demand for SSH skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SSH over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Secure Shell (SSH)
Rank - 69 81
Contract jobs citing SSH 0 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading - 0.897% 0.094%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 2.146% 0.467%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £83 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £263 £323
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -18.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £67.50 £47.00
% change year-on-year
- +43.61%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
199 466 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 23.72% 41.79% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 110 73
Average daily rate £280 £285 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.75% -24.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 7
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
SSH
Berkshire

SSH
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SSH across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Reading SSH Jobs Demand Trend

SSH
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SSH across the Reading region.

Reading SSH Daily Rate Trend

SSH
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SSH across the Reading region.

Reading SSH Hourly Rate Trend

SSH
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing SSH also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SSH.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
1 2 (100.00%) Fault Management
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification

SSH
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing SSH also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SSH. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Fault Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix